On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Kapil Hali wrote: > Hi, > > This series adds SMP support for Broadcom's Northstar Plus SoC. > > There are similar SMP enablement methods for many ARMv7 bsed SoCs. > BCM NSP SoC, has a typical such mechanism - after power-on, the > secondary core is held in a standby state, primary core provides a > startup address for the secondary core and wakes it up. Booting of > the secondary core is serialized using pen_release global variable. Why do you need the pen_release stuff? The above implies that you have only one secondary core, and you can control when it comes out of standby state. Please, don't assume that the pen_release stuff is any kind of recommended or standardised system. It isn't. It's a hack for ARMs evaluation platforms. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
